To understand that new beginning, we need to look at the differences between patriarchal religion, and the new Yahwism.

为了理解这种全新开始，我们必须看看,先祖宗教与新的耶和华崇拜之间的不同。

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And,as Chateaubriand said,the writer, "I don't know what we must believe but we must believe in something," and he gets down on his knees and prays.

如作家夏多布里昂所言,"我不知道我们能相信什么,但我们必须相信点什么",然后他屈膝跪下开始祈祷

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Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

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